Conference Information
Zita Barree, Conference Chair

Less than 14 weeks to go now until the SASFAA 2004 Conference in Birmingham, AL! A tentative agenda has now been posted to the SASFAA web site - please check it out at www.sasfaa.org. (Click on Conference 2004.)

A very special conference has been planned for you. A detailed pre-conference mailer will be sent out later this month, so please be on the lookout for it.

SASFAA will be moving to a new web site within the next week or so, and as soon as it is ready, you will be notified. On-line conference registration will be made available at that time. Stay tuned!

Additional Conference Information for you to Consider…Make Your Plans to Attend Now!

As financial aid administrators, we are devoted to helping our students obtain an education that will allow them to reach their goals and to follow their dreams. Every day we provide our students with “Access-the Key Brighter Futures” and we invite you to join us in the “Magic City” on February 15-18 for the 2004 SASFAA Conference to do just that.

Our conference will begin with the SASFAA Community Service project – providing “access” through FAFSA Workshops for high school seniors who live in the Birmingham area. If your school budget and travel plans will allow you to be in Birmingham on Saturday, February 14, please plan to join the Diversity Committee in helping at these workshops as it promises to be one of the most rewarding professional and personal experiences of the conference.

As for educational experiences, the Conference Committee worked diligently to develop informative sessions that will appeal to the news, as well as the not-so-new financial aid administrator. Sessions will range from the beginner level with the New Aid Officer’s Workshop to the seasoned professional

level with the School Roundtable for Senior Administrators. A multitude of sessions that fall between these two experience levels will also be offered.

From a cultural standpoint, our host city, Birmingham, has much to offer SASFAA as well. The President’s Reception will be held at the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Diversity Committee has scheduled an informative speaker coupled with a tour of the Civil Rights Institute.

The 2004 SASFAA Conference promises to be educational, enlightening, and entertaining. Please visit the SASFAA Web site at www.sasfaa.org for all the conference details including hotel information, session details and conference registration. We’ll see you in Birmingham!

Would You Like to Host 150 of Your Colleagues for a Summer New Aid Officers Workshop?

SASFAA is looking for sites for the summers of 2005 and 2006. The Summer New Aid Officers Workshop is generally held in late June each year.

What kind of campus are we looking for? Conveniently located near an airport, able to accommodate 150 people on your campus for a week, providing them with rooms and meal facilities. You should be able to provide at least six classrooms (capacity 25 each) with state of the art equipment, one workroom, and at least one large lecture room (capacity 150).

Express your interest by sending the name of a contact person/site coordinator, voice and fax number, email address, your school's address, and a brief statement of interest to Freida J. Jones, SASFAA VP, Georgia Southwestern State University, 800 Wheatley Street, Americus, GA 31709, or email this information to fjjones@gsw.edu. Submit information on or before February 2, 2004, please. We would like for the accommodations to be for two years, but you only have to offer one year? If you have any questions, please call Freida J. Jones at 229-928-1378 or email me.